Episode 445: Dinosaurs in Swamps: That includes Prehistoric Planet 2. Pachycephalosaurus head-butting, Austroraptor fishing, T. rex stalking prey at night time, and extra dinosaur motion within the Cretaceous swamps
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The dinosaur of the day: Falcatakely
- Lived at similar time and position because the animals featured in episode 3 of Prehistoric Planet 2
- Enantiornithean that lived within the Past due Cretaceous in what’s now northern Madagascar (Maevarano Formation)
- About crow-sized
- Had a deep, lengthy beak, about 3.5 in (9 cm) lengthy
- Beak appeared very similar to a toucan’s
- As an enantiornithine, in some ways, would have gave the look of a contemporary fowl
- Had a prime, lengthy face that gave the look of a contemporary fowl
- However had enamel within the premaxilla
- Described via Patrick O’Connor and others in 2020
- Discovered a just about whole, neatly preserved cranium in 2010
- CT scanned the cranium in 2017
- Cranium is small, at about 3 in (8 cm) lengthy
- Portions of the fossil are paper skinny
- Maxilla is lower than 1 mm thick
- Had a slim preorbital area (in entrance of the attention socket)
- Kind and best species is Falcatakely forsterae
- Genus identify manner “small scythe”, and refers back to the form of the beak
- Species identify is in honor of Catherine Forster’s “contributions to paintings on Madagascan paravians”
- Sudden that it appeared superficially like a toucan
- Instance of convergent evolution (Falcatakely advanced the toucan-like beak tens of tens of millions of years sooner than toucans and different fashionable birds, and so they’re lovely distantly similar)
- Discovered a fancy collection of grooves at the bone that confirmed it had a big beak
- Had a beak form like a contemporary fowl, with a prime, lengthy higher invoice
- Then again, the face had equivalent bones as Velociraptor and different non-avian dinosaurs
- Like non-avian dinosaurs, had a bone below its beak and a big higher jawbone (a big maxilla and small premaxilla), in contrast to fashionable birds the place there is only one bone below the beak (the premaxilla)
- Most definitely used its beak for numerous functions, together with transferring items, grooming, and feeding
- Lived in a swampy floodplain that had rainy and dry seasons
A laugh Reality:
T. rex had the most important eyes of any dinosaur. However a number of fashionable animals have higher eyes than even the most important T. rex.
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